CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

13 Determination is again the answer (10) 14 First in, one is met by wagging tail (7) 15 Cause, therefore, to get into near frenzy (6) 16 From which haberdasher gets only negative return? (6) 17 Back in boring routine — with, PS, homely food (7) 18 Can afford to show mercy (5) 19 Looking back, time hasn’t altered in any way (4) 20 He sings wrong note right at the end (5) 21 Mrs. B is taking a trip (5) 22 Create with wood base, new form of sieve (6) 23 Are infected by an animal, child (5) 28 Many among those Vera listed (7) 30 ‘Leisure activity that’s beyond me,’ I put in (7) 33 Dictated to, had dismantled (5,4) 36 Eavesdropped as one sent message in Morse code? (6) 38 Step inside, sir, thank you (5) 39 Said it’s a metal bar (5) 40 With ungainly gait, go off after wife (6) 42 Beer makes fat (5) 43 Controlled by a female: led around (7) 44 Squirm at ‘Women and their manipulation’ (6) 46 Sleeps for a period, coming back (4) 49 Walk, It’s only a short distance (4) 51 The human, given time, will contrive to (6) 53 Keeping pearls, perhaps, and a ring in (7) 55 Animals in which the farmer invests his money? (5) 59 It facilitates transfers from one bank to another (6) 60 Be about to whack, or rap (5) 61 Said it’s not a pretty tree (5) 62 Women of our era featuring in stories (6) 63 Becomes boring when I cast wrong star in (5,4) 65 Pater’s devastated after daughter leaves (7) 66 Wrap up and shut up about the ornament! (7) 70 That’s the pip for half past one (5) 71 Did prepare to do something about being hooked on (6) 73 Called and went off about me (5) 75 Nag’s head goes into bag for something to eat (5) 80 Getting bonus is a positive sign (4) 82 Is inclined to, when time expires (5) 83 In case, were given mechanical energy (7) 84 Quite heart-rending. Terribly cut up at first (6) 85 It lessens the shock of ‘Silly old fool!’ (6) 86 Seek to find the meaning of ‘Achtung’ (4,3) 87 Is my employee and a success, far as I’m concerned (5,3,2)

DOWN

1 Say no to waste (6) 2 Left space for a window (8) 3 ‘Good-humoured and cheerful’ is fair (5) 4 Tank is cold one at the back (7) 5 Accustomed to being at home, rued travelling (6) 6 Bright little girl with a namesake dunderhead (5) 7 Didn’t notice old shilling among collection of dimes (6) 8 Letter to girl I love, half written (7) 9 New start for the roofer? (5,5) 10 Raise bed again, to put into (5) 11 Denied I sang out ‘Help!’ (8) 12 Alone, taking the sun with nothing on (4) 24 Frighten, by mistake, something in the meadow (7) 25 Father with two daughters and a young boy (5) 26 Moved to have communist sent to prison (7) 27 A little bent, perhaps, on the outside, inside two others (7) 29 Call for former deed (5) 31 Gather a whole lot of (5) 32 Ah, leaving Thomas is upsetting: very (4) 34 Because rent, unfortunately, is behind (6) 35 Broke, being low-quality (4) 37 Went for the fat man (7) 41 Meant to take action about weight going up (7) 45 Someone who looks after his money? (6) 47 Pardon woman who’s protecting home (7) 48 Prevent a GP being brought round as locum (7) 50 The river, in other words, is in flood (7) 52 Left to flit about, is happy (4) 54 Cook is right, as to preparation (5) 56 Having no recorded offences, European family took in (5) 57 Put ‘married before’. It’s simple (4) 58 Fast measures taken to incarcerate a number (5) 60 How obvious it is approaching motorist hasn’t dimmed lights? (10) 64 With ‘Engagement is over’, ends conversation (5,3) 67 Cheat the state to get free money (8) 68 Fail to reach target and I take over the job (7) 69 For you again, dears, written cryptically (7) 72 Putting two heads together with excellent result (6) 74 Weapons used in past or, going back, in various wars (6) 76 Credit me as having created the cosmetics (6) 77 Account for requiring second attempt to get ball in (5) 78 Packs up studies (5) 79 Bad-tempered mongrel (5) 81 Praise not a single turn (4)